Free Download Cristina Chimisso, "Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination"
English | 2001 | pages: 300 | ISBN: 0415269059, 0415869099 | PDF | 7,4 mb
In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French Philosopher of Science, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the century. The book is introduced by a study – based on an analysis of portraits and literary representations – of how Bachelard’s admirers transformed him into the mythical image of the Philosopher, the Patriarch and the ‘Teacher of Happiness’. Such a projected image is contrasted with Bachelard’s own conception of philosophy and his personal pedagogical and moral ideas.